Usually means: Reverse faults with shallow dip.
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(Note: See thrust_fault as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thrust fault)

noun:  (geology) A type of reverse fault in which the angle that the hanging wall makes with the horizontal is less than 45 degrees.
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